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title: "36 U.S.C. § 230102"
description: "Purposes"
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title_number: 36
title_name: "PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS"
chapter_number: "2301"
chapter_name: "VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE UNITED STATES"
section: "230102"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 230102"
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# 36 U.S.C. § 230102 - Purposes
## Text
The purposes of the corporation are fraternal, patriotic, historical, charitable, and educational, and are—
(1) to preserve and strengthen comradeship among its members;
(2) to assist worthy comrades;
(3) to perpetuate the memory and history of our dead, and to assist their surviving spouses and orphans;
(4) to maintain true allegiance to the Government of the United States, and fidelity to its Constitution and laws;
(5) to foster true patriotism;
(6) to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom; and
(7) to preserve and defend the United States from all enemies.
(Pub. L. 105225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1481; Pub. L. 107242, § 2, Oct. 16, 2002, 116 Stat. 1497; Pub. L. 113199, § 1(b), Dec. 4, 2014, 128 Stat. 2058.)
## Notes
Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 23010236:113.May 28, 1936, ch. 471, § 3, 49 Stat. 1391.
Editorial Notes
Amendments2014—Par. (3). Pub. L. 113199 substituted “surviving spouses” for “widows”. 2002—Pub. L. 107242 inserted “charitable,” before “and educational,” in introductory provisions.